{"conversationCode":"021-017","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-017","startDateTime":"1972-03-07T19:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-08T03:08:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Mar-1972","startTime":"2:38 PM","endDate":"7-Mar-1972","endTime":"10:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:38 pm and 10:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 21-17\n\nDate: March 7, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:38 pm and 10:08 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman","filename":["021-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:41:06","tapeEnd":"00:41:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"021-016","nextCode":"021-018","transcript":[{"start":0.52,"end":7.36,"text":"Yes, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. This brief interaction served solely as a logistical request to initiate a high-level administrative communication. No substantive policy matters were discussed during this exchange.","topics":["H.R. Haldeman","White House operations","Executive communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:06:23.839Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations","executive-communication"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-017.mp3","bytes":219427,"durationSec":9.08,"bitrate":193387,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}